otto

Name: otto
Address: Oderberger Str. 56, Berlin, Berlin, 10435, DE
Price range: 60–100 €

Vadim Otto Ursus' restaurant on Oderberger Straße: small plates from the Schorfheide, its own garden, lots of fermentation.

otto – European in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg — Foto: @otto_berlin

After his chef's training, Vadim Otto Ursus spent three years cooking in Norway, on the Faroe Islands and at René Redzepi's Noma. Back in Berlin he fell for the Schorfheide, and a plot near Chorin became his lab kitchen. After a pop-up he opened his restaurant otto on Oderberger Straße in October 2019, with 19 seats.

Insider tip

„Order several small plates to share — that's how the menu works.“

otto sees itself as a small, lively neighbourhood restaurant and a window into Brandenburg's bounty. The menu is seasonal and made up of smaller plates to share. Most ingredients come from small organic farms, producers and hunters in the Schorfheide biosphere reserve, and in Buchholz the team grows, forages and ripens produce in its own garden. A lot is fermented and preserved. To drink there are natural wines and craft drinks from producers the team has worked with for years. otto has since grown into a small family, with the wine bar Pluto, the Wirtshaus Trio and the café Bravo. Open every evening from 6 pm.